Chapter Forty-Eight: The Fighting Painting Competition
It's just that Mrs. Lian's words have already been spoken, and it is difficult to collect the water, so she has to smile awkwardly, and reluctantly praise: "I just mean, it is worthy of being the girls of the Ye family, they are all good-looking!" What she said was to make up for the mistake of her words, and she praised the entire Miss Ye Mansion in one sentence, and also made it clear that Ye Hao was not the most special, but Miss Ye Fu looked like this, she was just dazzled.
Lin smiled tacitly, naturally not much to investigate, it was enough to see Mrs. Lian's self-justification and embarrassed look, and then asked with a smile: "Mrs. Lian, why don't you see Miss Lian?"
When Mrs. Lian heard that she heard her precious daughter, she hurriedly smiled, and she didn't want to be overjoyed, so she waved her hand and said indifferently: "That girl is naturally here, but she was called by Princess Luxiang to be stubborn." She looked quite proud when she mentioned Princess Luxiang, as if it was a great honor for her daughter to be in the eyes of the princess.
Lin laughed, didn't answer, a little jealous thinking about what Mrs. Lian's daughter is, she is also a pampered and arrogant character like her mother, arrogant and tight, in the past, she forced Ye Rong to communicate with Forsythia for the future of the second master, every time she returned home, Rong'er complained with her face, and complained to her about Forsythia's young lady's temper, even she could enter the eyes of the princess? What a big joke!
Even Mrs. didn't care, and pulled the Lin family to go to her noble lady's circle, the Lin family was puzzled, and Mrs. Lian raised her eyebrows, "What, I'll take you to get to know my handkerchiefs, but Second Mrs. Ye doesn't want to?" ”
This is to mention her, when Lin heard this, she nodded busily, she was too late to be happy, where would she be unwilling, she couldn't wait to interact with those so-called high-ranking officials and ladies, do her part for the master's official career, and it will also be beneficial to Rong'er's future marriage, why not?
Lin said a few words to Ye Rong, and walked hand in hand with Mrs. Lian Yan Yan Yan, Wang looked at Ye Rong and said in a low voice: "Fifth Miss is with us?" She was just a kind suggestion, and as for Ye Rongken's refusal, it was her own business.
Ye Rong nodded, but saw a young girl walking in the distance, wearing a coupling-colored placket, wearing a twelve-embroidered Su embroidered long skirt, and came in style, it was Lin Mi'er who met in Ruiwang's Mansion that day, she came over, pulled Ye Rong affectionately, and said with a smile: "It's still early, Niangniang ordered someone to prepare a fighting painting competition, there are already many noble girls participating, you all go and take a look!"
Ye Rong nodded busily, she happened to be worried that there was no one to accompany her, and she was going to go to the painting competition with Lin Mi'er to take a look, Wang's eyes flashed, a trace of joy flashed, and she secretly patted Ye Mei's hand, and sneered at everyone: "Yes, you guys go to the painting competition with Miss Lin, so you can see and see."
The deep meaning of her words was heard by Ye Hao, and she couldn't guess Wang's wishful thinking, but she just wanted Ye Mei to shine in the painting competition, and it was best to get into the golden eyes of those princesses and nobles, so that Ye Mei's talent was famous, and her social circle was wide, and even the official career of the third master was helpful.
Ye Mei can be described as a talented woman, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, Wang has strictly cultivated her since she was a child, her words and deeds are decent, her posture looks weak and windless, but she is born with a bit of stubborn bookish atmosphere, and she can't hide her unique style anywhere.
Lin Mier's disdainful eyes fell on Wang's body, as if laughing at her for her short-sightedness, and then withdrew her gaze, only pulling Ye Rong and leaving, Ye Mei smiled lightly and followed, Ye Miao also followed Ye Mei, Ye Hao didn't want to join in the fun, so she simply painted her in general, why bother to make a laughing stock?
However, the Wang family saw that Ye Hao had no idea of going together, and knew in his heart, despising Ye Hao for being bold, but he made a gentle appearance on his face, and asked: "Fourth Miss, let's go and take a look, it's too boring to be with us, why don't you have more dealings with those young ladies."
Mei'er's painting is excellent, she doesn't have to worry, but if there is one more person to accompany her exquisite painting work, it will naturally be better, and it can better bring out Mei'er's talent, Ye Hao is the best choice, Bian Jing who doesn't know that Ye Hao is a straw bag, and she and Mei'er are both Miss Ye Fu, one is amazingly talented, the other is vulgar, compared with the two, Mei'er has more income.
Ye Hao raised her eyes, her eyes were full of obvious mockery, and she hooked the corners of her lips, "Then, I'll go and take a look, and I hope that the third aunt and the fourth aunt will have a good time." After speaking, she didn't wait for Wang's answer and left on her own.
Wang was stunned by Ye Hao's eyes, and it took a while to ease up, this Ye Hao seemed to see through her inner thoughts, the smile on the corners of her lips, with a sarcastic look, all this made Wang's heart tremble, she comforted herself, it was just an illusion, but, can she really rest assured?
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The painting competition is in full swing, those noble ladies have a chance, who doesn't want to show off their talents? All enthusiastically participated in it, there were many paintings on the long table outside the pavilion, the ink fragrance was overflowing, those noble ladies waved the brush in their hands, and the white paper under their hands was even more colorful, and the girls on the side were staring at them curiously, it seemed, the atmosphere was harmonious.
The county lord of Xueran lazily raised his eyes and glanced at them, and happened to see Ye Mei and them, smiled leisurely, turned his head sideways and whispered something to Princess Luxiang, Princess Luxiang listened, waved her hand, and asked out loud: "I heard that the sixth lady of Ye Mansion is both talented and beautiful?" Skilled painters? Why don't you show us a hand? ”
Princess Luxiang is dressed in a light pink palace dress, her pretty face is fairer, and she is lovely, Ye Mei was named by her, and she was surprised and proud in her heart, I heard that this Princess Luxiang is quite favored by the emperor, if she enters her eyes, her future is also immeasurable, but this princess named her to paint, and her heart is inevitably uneasy.
Ye Mei's well-behaved appearance with low eyebrows obviously pleased Princess Luxiang, she just likes to trample everyone under the pride of being on the ground, and Ye Mei's obvious respect and vague fear of her made her even more proud, so she softened her tone, and then said softly: "You don't have to worry, even if the painting is not good, this princess will forgive you for your innocence."
"Thank you, princess, courtiers take orders." Ye Mei quietly waved his pen and painted, not daring to slack off at all, for a long time, he put down the pen, bowed his head and gently dried the ink, and respectfully raised his head and Princess Luxiang and others: "The courtiers are clumsy, the princess and look at it at will, it is more true."
Princess Luxiang took a look, her eyes were full of surprise, and she praised without hesitation: "It's not an exaggeration to say that your painting is ingenious, what are you modest?" I'm not good at drawing! As he spoke, he kept looking at Ye Mei with his eyes, nodding his head incessantly, and seeing that she was praised, she still didn't change her face, she didn't show her joy, she smiled modestly, advanced and retreated, and behaved elegantly, and she was even more highly regarded by her.
Of course Ye Mei was happy in her heart, but she knew how to avoid the edge, and the joy would only make Princess Luxiang and the nobles disgusted, after all, no one likes such complacent and arrogant people, and her pretended to be indifferent and generous, she must have won the appreciation and affirmation of the princess, but this was not enough, so she looked at Ye Hao with a smile, "Fourth sister, you can also try it." ”
Everyone looked at Ye Hao, all of them looked like they were watching a good show, who didn't know that Ye Hao was only rude, and with Ye Mei's Zhuyu in front, Ye Hao couldn't get into the eyes of Princess Luxiang and others even more even if she worked hard to paint, but would be compared with Ye Mei, and then she had another laughing stock, and her notoriety was even more far-reaching.
Ye Hao didn't know Ye Mei's thoughts, she smiled faintly and excused herself: "Sixth sister, this painting is excellent, I'm ashamed of myself." This is indeed the truth, among the young ladies of Ye Mansion, Ye Rong is good at the piano, Ye Mei is good at painting, Ye Miao is excellent at calligraphy, and Ye Hao is loose and has no skills, she doesn't want to be used by Ye Mei as a raft to fulfill Ye Mei's talent.
Ye Mei didn't expect Ye Hao to admit that she couldn't compare to her, but even so, she still didn't give up biting Ye Hao, smiled slowly, and said coquettishly: "Fourth sister, don't you look down on your sister?" Besides, with the princesses and nobles present, the fourth sister doesn't sell face? This is a silent threat to Ye Hao, using the majesty of Princess Luxiang to force Ye Hao to agree, if Ye Hao still does not agree, it will be disrespectful to the princess, thus causing some trouble, and she is also happy to see it.
The county lord of Xueran glanced at Ye Hao with disdain, her eyes were full of sarcasm, her lips opened lightly, and she said those harsh words, only to see her open her mouth and say: "Miss Ye Liu, don't force Miss Fourth, Fourth Miss is the daughter of the general, she must know some fist and foot kung fu, maybe Miss Fourth wants to show us this kung fu."
She was laughing at Ye Hao for being like Ye Meng, a vulgar and contemptible person, Ye Hao couldn't hear it, but when she mentioned her father and slandered her father's reputation, she couldn't sit idly by. Putting away her bland face, her eyes were like ice shooting at the county lord of Xueran, her eyes turned cold, she squinted slightly, and asked coldly: "So, the county lord will definitely meet the current policy?"
"What? What does the county do? The county lord of Xueran screamed inexplicably, looking at Ye Hao with a blank face, as if looking at a strange person, at this time, the policy is what the courtiers want to learn, analyze current affairs, care about national affairs, and the country's fortune, where does it have anything to do with her as a woman?
"Really?" Ye Hao smiled, "It's really strange, the courtiers are puzzled, since the prince will be the current policy, the county lord is the daughter of the prince, the tiger father has no dogs, and the county lord should be the one?" Otherwise, isn't this disrespectful to the emperor? She said that later, she actually got involved in the current saint, this is a big crime, the hat of disrespect to the emperor, can make the lord of Xueran die thousands of times, the girl said with a light face, as if this shocking words did not come from her mouth, she stood there, it was so dazzling, people couldn't take their eyes off.